Finding this idea entirely correct and deserving of support, I request that you take Comrade Lunacharsky's review and then his draft (formal: conditions, deadlines, etc.) be submitted to the Small Sovnarkom and accelerate its passage 198.

14/I. 1922. Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin

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Comrade Gorbunov, it is necessary that you yourself collect the necessary information, consulting, if needed, with Kamenev and Trotsky, and decide the question without me.

Lenin

Dictated by telephone

18 January 1922

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